Cartoon Network Studios

Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. is a cartoon animation studio founded by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera that has produced television cartoons for over forty years.

The Cartoon Network Studios era

After the merger between Turner Broadcasting and Time Warner in 1995, the conglomerate had two separate animation studios in its possession. Though corporately they were combined, Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros. Animation operated separately, a practice which they continue to do to this day. While WB Animation focused their programming on the-then new network, The WB, Hanna-Barbera began to solely focus on the Cartoon Network. Cartoon Network became the exclusive home of all new Hanna-Barbera productions. One of the first original series to air on Cartoon Network was Genndy Tartakovsky's Dexter's Laboratory, one of the first spinoffs from the What-A-Cartoon! (a/k/a World Premiere Toons and Cartoon Cartoons) project. Others followed like Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, and The Powerpuff Girls, the last series to use H-B's famous swirling star logo (which was first used in 1979). H-B also produced several new direct-to-video movies featuring Scooby-Doo (released by Warner Bros.) as well as creating a new Jonny Quest series, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.

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Turner Broadcasting - Time Warner - 1995 - The WB - Cartoon Network - Dexter's Laboratory - What-A-Cartoon! - Johnny Bravo - Cow and Chicken - The Powerpuff Girls - 1979 - Warner Bros. - Jonny Quest - The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

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Around 1998, the Hanna-Barbera name began to disappear from the newer shows from the studio in favor of the Cartoon Network Studios name (although the H-B logo was still shown together with the Cartoon Network logo at the end of shows until 2001). This came in handy with shows that were produced outside of Hanna-Barbera, but that Cartoon Network had a hand in producing, like aka Cartoons' Ed, Edd, and Eddy, Kino Film's Mike, Lu and Og, Curious Pictures' Sheep in the Big City, ', and Noodlesoup/Astrobase Go's The Venture Bros. (made for Adult Swim), as well as the shows the studio continues to produce, like The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Evil Con Carne, Samurai Jack, Megas XLR, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, ', Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi(co-produced with Renegade Animation), and Camp Lazlo.

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Ed, Edd, and Eddy - Mike, Lu and Og - Sheep in the Big City - The Venture Bros. - Adult Swim - The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy - Evil Con Carne - Samurai Jack - Megas XLR - Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends - The Life and Times of Juniper Lee - Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi - Camp Lazlo

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When William Hanna died in 2001, an era was over. Though the Hanna-Barbera name remains for "classic" productions based on properties like the Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, and others, the studio bearing its name is now Cartoon Network Studios, which continues the traditions made from its founding fathers while creating new paths of their own. The name "Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc." is still its official name, used in some official documents and copyright notices.

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William Hanna - 2001

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In 2002, a brand new series about Scooby-Doo and the gang entitled What's New, Scooby-Doo? was released. Despite being produced at Warner Bros. Television Animation (not Cartoon Network Studios), the copyright message at the end of each episode states the author as "Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc." This is the only recent series in which Hanna-Barbera's name is mentioned as the author (as Cartoon Network's series are copyrighted by the channel itself).

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2002 - What's New, Scooby-Doo? - Copyright

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